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CHRISTCHURCH
Sun 11 Jun, 6.25pm, Regent on Worcester Cinemas
Loving Annabelle
Dir: Katherine Brooks, USA, 2005, DVD, 76 mins
In the 1931 lesbian movie
Maidens in Uniform a young girl is sent off to a boarding school for girls where she soon develops a crush on everyone’s favourite female teacher. This now-classic tale of forbidden love gets a sexy and modern retelling in Katherine Brooks’ latest film,
Loving Annabelle. Seventy four years after Maidens in Uniform shocked audiences, social contempt for inter-generational love persists. While the love affair in
Maidens in Uniform remains unrequited, Brooks’ film delves into deeper terrain, exploring the sexual and emotional relationship between the teacher and student. What is depicted as a schoolgirl crush in
Maidens in Uniform now becomes a full-bodied steamy affair. Annabelle is a rebel who refuses to accept the school’s rules and discipline. Simone is a gifted and devoted young poetry teacher who falls in love with Annabelle despite her efforts to ignore the obvious attraction between the two, and she finds that Annabelle quickly unlocks the passion that has lay dormant within her since her teenage years.
Loving Annabelle is an intense and tight retelling of the taboo of student teacher love, and is made all the more pleasing with a cast that is extremely easy on the eye. (Melbourne Queer Film Festival)
Best Lesbian Feature – Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2006
CHRISTCHURCH
Sun 11 Jun, 6.25pm, Regent on Worcester Cinemas
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